Well good news... er... the opposite actually....

>Additional Old Linux Drivers Face Removal Due To Noise From AI/LLM Coding Agents

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Retiring-Moxa-Driver

And with the Linux Kernel being friendly to both LLM usage and a modern language, for some of us who don't know C, a huge barrier is lifted from being able to write device drivers.

Not a successful anecdote, but I have a Windows Hello compatible Kengsington fingerprint reader, and for some time I wanted to write drivers for Linux. Even without using C, it would have been a huge undertaking only to fail in the end; because Claude did much of the research and concluded that the device wouldn't work on Linux (can't remember why but it made sense). Then it suggested what could work.

I don't understand the technology enough to see why, but LLMs seem unusually skilled at reverse engineering proprietary software.